Shrewsbury

The Town of Shrewsbury has developed an new plan for state-mandated multifamily zoning.

A 10,000-square-foot retail building in Natick has been purchased by the operators of a number of The Learning Experience daycare centers in Massachusetts, as the company seeks to open its first location in the town.

The SDO plans to amend its citizen requirement to allow immigrants with a legal status to qualify.

The franchise, operated by married couple Logi Vaidyanathan and Jobita Alukka of Shrewsbury, will operate from the pool at the DoubleTree Hilton-Milford.

UMass Memorial Health in Worcester has awarded nearly $5 million in grants to 18 Worcester County nonprofits, aimed at bettering health outcomes and increasing access to care for underserved community members.

Following the closures, the company will have more than 350 remaining locations across the Northeast, with 13 in Central Massachusetts.

Three Central Massachusetts organizations and institutions have been awarded $2 million in state funds to sponsor their workforce development initiatives aimed at closing the skills gap and placing hundreds of unemployed and underemployed residents into culinary, human, and medical service positions.

MassHousing and the Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp have teamed up to launch what they say is the largest publicly led financing program of its kind in the country.

Employees at the Community Economic Development Assistance Corp., Fidelity Bank, and NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs moving up in their careers.

The Town of Shrewsbury was awarded a $185,600 grant from lobbying group and trade association American Beverage to provide new recycling containers for nearly 12,000 households.